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Expeditors International Of Washington Inc (EXPD): Today's Featured Transportation Laggard

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Expeditors International of Washington (
EXPD) pushed the Transportation industry lower today making it today's featured Transportation laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 1%. By the end of trading, Expeditors International of Washington fell 68 cents (-1.7%) to $38.48 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.3 million shares of Expeditors International of Washington exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.5 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $38.39-$39.22 after having opened the day at $39.07 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $39.16. Other companies within the Transportation industry that declined today were:
DS Torm (
TRMD), down 11.9%,
Newlead Holdings (
NEWL), down 9.6%,
FreeSeas (
FREE), down 8.9%, and
Ultrapetrol Bahamas (
ULTR), down 7.5%.

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Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. provides logistics services in the United States and internationally. Expeditors International of Washington has a market cap of $8.23 billion and is part of the
services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 23.3, equal to the average transportation industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 4.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are four analysts that rate Expeditors International of Washington a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and 11 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Expeditors International of Washington as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.